That is horrific! We really should do something to prioritize questions marked urgent, as someone might just get fired or thrown out of school otherwise. Therefore, I propose that all questions with the urgent-help-needed tag is shown on the front page with an extra large, extra bold, Comic Sans font.

Also, a free bounty of 1000 rep. should automatically be attached to question with this tag.

Btw. I need help from a removing all occurences of a specific tag on SO. Can anyone help? This is urgent!

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Just one thing, when retagging, take the time to clean up the post too.
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perbertMar 29 '10 at 12:13

@voyager: hope you aren't asking for this post to be cleaned up, it's beautiful! i wish all retag-requests were this ... creative.
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quack quixoteMar 29 '10 at 12:19

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Nice! I wasn't sure if this was a joke or not all the way until "shown on the front page with an extra large, extra bold, Comic Sans font."
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Bill the LizardMar 29 '10 at 12:53

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I totally lol'ed. This is EXACTLY what we need to do with such questions! Genius plan Jørn!
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Jeff Atwood♦Mar 30 '10 at 3:33

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Some other people are not expert enough to have added that task, but have clearly stated the urgency of their question by writing "URGENT" (sometimes even in capital letters, to express extra urgency) in its title. We should help these people, too.
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Daniel DaranasMar 30 '10 at 9:52

Too late to edit, but I was meaning "to have added that tag".
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Daniel DaranasMar 30 '10 at 12:48

"We really should do something to prioritize questions marked urgent, as someone might just get fired or thrown out of school otherwise" hahahaha :-)) "... Also, a free bounty of 1000 rep. ..." Are you for real? Didn't you forgot to add [fun] tag to this question?
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TomasOct 20 '11 at 14:41

I propose that all questions with the urgent-help-needed tag is shown on the front page with an extra large, extra bold, Comic Sans font.

Also, a free bounty of 1000 rep. should automatically be attached to question with this tag.

I quite agree with this, but it would have be a purchasable question upgrade for the person asking the question (if they are in dire need, they surely can demonstrate such urgency financially) AND it would only be bolded/highlighted and with the bounty available for those who elect to participate in such questions by paying a small fee to SO for the privilege of helping those poor souls with urgent questions.

To everyone else, though, it would appear exactly as a regular question with no particular highlighting, and they would be ineligible for the 1k bounty.

As an aside, I'd like to invest in SO before this scheme feature is implemented.